Governors Conference Called As Farm Strike Spreads
Governor Clyde Herring announced a conference of ten agricultural state governors to discuss the farming situation. He invited a federal representative, possibly Henry Morgenthau Jr. The farm strike pickets faced orders against picketing, while embargo and protests emerged in Iowa Wisconsin and neighboring states with dairy and wheat disruptions and calls for production costs.
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Des Moines
Clyde Herring
State House
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Herring
Roosevelt
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Federal Farm Administration
Omaha
Pottawatomie County
Sioux City
Wallace
Cooperative Milk Pool
Pool Executive Board
Appleton
Milan
North Dakota
Murray Takes Over Soldiers' Home
Oklahoma City October twenty fifth Governor Murray seizes the Union Soldiers Home defying a district court order. He issues an executive order and deploys the national guard to enforce control after the former matron withheld keys to the building amid a funding dispute and court fight with the home trustees.
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Oklahoma City
William H. Murray
Bostic
General Barrett
George Abe Davis
Britain launches world's first flying battleship
The British Royal Air Force unveils a flying battleship at Brough England. The 26 foot high craft spans 97 feet and carries a gun firing 100 rounds per minute. Captain Pynches stands at the bow beside the formidable gun as the craft reaches 132 mph.
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Brittania
Airways
Brough
Yorkshire
England
Royal Air Force
Pynches
Drumright Couple Hurt In Accident
Mr and Mrs B F Buck of Drumright were injured in an automobile wreck north of the Pontotoc county line on Highway 48 south of Ada about 9 oclock Tuesday night. Buck suffered a jaw and chin gash while Mrs Buck had a shoulder injury and internal injuries. Driver Charley Blevins of Drumright was unhurt except for scratches. Other occupants Jim Statler Arnold Mallory and Mrs Emma Warmack of Ada were not injured.
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B. F. Buck
Drumright
Pontotoc County
Highway 48
Ada
Breco Hospital
Jim Statler
Arnold Mallory
Emma Warmack
Johnston County
Thompson blood transfusion call mobilizes ten teammates
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania physicians appealed for volunteers to donate blood for Paul Thompson a high school football player who cut a leg artery in a fall while sleepwalking Ten of his teammates quickly answered the call and volunteered to donate.
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Waynesburg
Paul Thompson
Thompson
Conference Steering Committee Recommends Disarmament Adjournment
Geneva, Oct. 25. The steering committee of the disarmament conference recommended adjournment until December 4 with a plan to reconvene then if progress warrants. A further steering committee meeting will occur after today’s session to decide how to carry on during the recess, including private talks or a special committee.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Arthur Henderson
Tax on Corn Processing Levy Set in Washington
Washington announces a 28 cent per bushel tax on corn processed after November 4 to restore prewar purchasing power. Secretary Wallace fixes the levy, president approves, initiating a production center plan costing up to 350 million dollars. Floor stocks as of November 5 will be assessed. retailers may have 50 days to market inventory. A hearing on possible consumption decline is set for November 2 in Washington.
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Washington
Wallace
Average wages rise in September across 423 thousand workers
Labor department reports a 0.3 cent hourly increase to 51.4 cents with hours per week dropping from 38.6 to 36.1 in both manufacturing and non manufacturing sectors. Secretary Perkins attributes the shifts to NRA, noting higher hours and pay not guaranteed weekly earnings.
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Washington
Labor Department
Perkins
NRA
McKeown to Lead Chicago Bankruptcy Inquiry
Congressman Tom D. McKeown travels to Oklahoma City and Chicago with Mrs. McKeown to review government records. As chair of a subcommittee, he will oversee a 15 day investigation into bankruptcy and federal equity receiverships with five colleagues and several federal judges involved.
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Tom D. McKeown
Life term criminal Brady captured after Amarillo tip
Kansas penitentiary escapee known as Big Boy Brady was tracked to Tucumcari New Mexico hospital under police guard after Amarillo officers received information from a man who knew him. He likely fled from Frederick Oklahoma after a bank robbery and was recognized at a local filling station by an attendant living in Liberal Kansas.
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Amarillo
Tex
C?p
Brady
Kansas Penitentiary
Tucumcari
N. M
Frederick
Okla
Liberal
Kas
Roosevelt
Wall Street
New York
White House
Bank of England
Bank of France
New England
Farm program on chamber schedule
An eastern Oklahoma campaign to beat the boll weevil and boost cotton is outlined for the chamber of commerce meeting led by M. T. Heard. S. C. Boswell will answer key questions on cooperation with the agriculture department and cotton viability as boll weevils reappear. The noon meeting at Aldridge seeks all area farmers and business leaders.
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Oklahoma
Chamber of Commerce
M. T. Heard
Department of Agriculture
S. C. Boswell
Aldridge
Ickes Warns Oil Men on Cheating at Convention
Secretary Harold Ickes warned about cheating in oil production and threatened to use drastic powers under the oil code to limit crude output to government figures. He spoke to about 1,000 producers and dealers at the American Petroleum Institute convention in Chicago. He said price fixing cannot solve the industry’s troubles unless production is confined to authorized levels.
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Chicago
Harold Ickes
Ickes
American Petroleum Institute
Franklin Wirt Franklin
Ardmore
Okla
Advisory farmer board holds meeting in Pontotoc county
County agricultural advisory board members and guests gathered at J. B. Hill’s office to review the year’s agricultural work in Pontotoc county and plan the next year. The program focuses on cotton acreage reduction, soil building, terracing, legumes, poultry, live stock, and nut propagation with several visitors in attendance.
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County Agricultural Advisory Board
J. B. Hill
Pontotoc County
Hill
W. J. Green
Stillwater
Craig
Coal County
Brian
J. E. Chandler
H. J. Huddleston
Building contracts rise in an October report
New York October 25. Building contracts for the first half of October in 37 states east of the Rockies surpassed the prior year for the first time since spring 19598. Schnitman, chief statistician for F W Dodge, reported total contracts of 64 900 000 compared with 54 329 300 a year earlier. Public funds financed 45 902 600 of the October contracts.
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New York
Rocky Mountains
L. Arthur Sehnitman
F. W. Dodge Corporation
Schnitman
Public Works Administration
Dodge Corporation
Roosevelt opens gold purchase plan at 31.36 per ounce
President Roosevelt launches a government gold purchase program offering 31.36 dollars per ounce for newly mined gold paid in RFC debentures. Jesse Jones says debentures can be discounted to real cash value, with White House orders and treasury regulations to follow outlining transfer steps to the corporation.
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Richard L. Turner
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Jesse J. Jones
RFC
White House
Treasury Department
Treasury
State cannot be sued in Devalls Bluff bridge case
Arkansas high court rules the state immune from suit and blocks Pulaski county chancery from granting a receivership for the state owned toll bridge at Devalls Bluff sought by bondholders Annie Mayo and Bernice Mercer. The White River Bridge Co. bridge, condemned by the state in 1950, was involved and the decree confirming land sale to the federal land bank was upheld.
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Little Rock
Ark
Supreme Court
Pulaski County
Federal Land Bank of St. Louis
G. H. Vineyard
Phillips County
Phillips Chancery Court
Purcell Bridge receipts settled after liquidation
About 1,700 holders of impounded Lexington Purcell bridge toll receipts received checks today as special master C G Moore completed liquidation. Total payments reached 60000 dollars with claimants receiving 83 percent after 17 percent deduction for costs. The largest check for 3500 went to W L Guffin of Purcell.
Accident Victim Bertha Wylie Dies After Friday Crash
Mrs. Bertha Wylie 43 died Saturday night from injuries after a Friday automobile crash near Fitzhush. A daughter-in-law and a grandchild were injured as the vehicle skidded on gravel and overturned into a creek. Survived by husband Walter Wylie and several children. Funeral held Monday at Lightning Ridge Criswell Funeral Home.
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Bertha Wylie
Fitzhuch
Lightning Ridge Criswell Funeral Home
Wylie
Fitzhush
Lola Nichols
Nichols
Government buys 15 million pounds of canned beef for relief
Washington October 25 The federal surplus relief corporation seeks bids on 15,000,000 pounds of canned beef to be sent to relief rolls. Bids open November 6. Emergency relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins says the purchase aims to feed the needy and stabilize the beef cattle market by using surplus cattle.
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Washington
U?p
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Harry L. Hopkins
Tulsa Man Arrested by Chicago Police
Tulsa manager of Aetna Casualty and Security faced Chicago police on charges of embezzling bonds worth 16 000 including 10 000 in Okmulgee county school district bonds and 6 000 in Liberty bonds. Cate allegedly admitted losses and claimed a failed stock bet.
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Chicago
Thomas R. Cate
Aetna Casualty and Security Company
Tulsa
Okla
Aetna Casualty Life Insurance Company
Cate
Okmulgee County
A. M. McMeakin
Aetna
South Dearborn Street
Ray Griffith
James Fleming
Plainfield man punished for corn theft post verdict
Plainfield Wisconsin resident Fred Witch man was found guilty of stealing corn from a stalk. He was sentenced to husk what remained of the farmer's crop, a task estimated to take about 15 days.
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Plainfield
Wis
Fred Witchman
Ada Masons Attend District Meet at Tishomingo
A large Ada Masons delegation traveled to Tishomingo Monday night for a district Masonic gathering. The Ada lodge No. 119 A F and A M conferred the Master Mason degree with attendees including M Z Thompson John Merrick Ed Haley Floyd Henry Ernest Sawyer Martin Leonard and many others.
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Ada
Roosevelt Kept Indoors by Cold Amid Conferencing
President Roosevelt’s cold improved but kept him in the executive mansion for work and a semi weekly press conference. He wore a white jersey sweater while in bed for a heat treatment, no fever present, as hundreds of newspapermen waited a special delegation interview the president.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Executive Mansion
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Mass Meeting of Farmers Called in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City activists issue a call for a mass meeting on November 4 to discuss withholding farm products from the market until cost of production is restored. The call is signed by Tom Cheek, president of the state farmers' union, who stresses the gathering must be orderly.
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Oklahoma City
Sun
Murray
Tom Cheek
Convict Shot During Escape Attempt at McAlester Penitentiary
Ted Cole twenty two formerly condemned robber, held in Tulsa county case, was shot in the thigh as he tried to climb over the wall at the Oklahoma penitentiary. A guard fired after he was spotted with an improvised ladder and a coil of rope in hand. Cole's death sentence had been commuted to fifteen years in prison.
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Mcalester
Okla
Ted Cole
Tulsa County
Criminal Court of Appeals
Cole
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President Reno
Conference of Executives of Ten
Milo Reno
Reno
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
Soldiers’ Home
Britain
MMS
Tom D. Mkeown
Avisory Farmer Board
Europe
Relief Corporation
Masonic
Tishomingo
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